dj-gabriele
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Maybe Europe's machines use more water?
Hahahah, very funny
Hahahah, very funny
Funny... Front Loaders are Junk
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rolls_rapide
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I think the main cause of the mould in the machines is:
cold water washes + overdosed liquid detergent + overdosed fabric conditioner + not leaving the door open at the end of the cycle.
You could save yourselves an awful lot of grief by:
washing in warm to hot water + using a powder detergent + leaving the door ajar at the end.
I stopped using fabric conditioner, due to it leaving the dispenser drawer fusty smelling.
cold water washes + overdosed liquid detergent + overdosed fabric conditioner + not leaving the door open at the end of the cycle.
You could save yourselves an awful lot of grief by:
washing in warm to hot water + using a powder detergent + leaving the door ajar at the end.
I stopped using fabric conditioner, due to it leaving the dispenser drawer fusty smelling.
pierreandreply4
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me i wash in cold water and NEVER had this problem
hoovermatic
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Rolls twinnies
is there any YouTube footage of these machines?
is there any YouTube footage of these machines?
3beltwesty
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pierreandreply4
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not only defective parts or poor worksmen ship there is also the fact that sometime the washer can be full of water if there is water in the washer near the component
3beltwesty
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Mould/mildew =
User error, nothing else.
User error, nothing else.
pierreandreply4
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front loader washers and pets
one thing i need to had is if you have a pet and wash a pet bed in a front loader be sure to check the gasket as pet hair might acumulate there and cause mould or mildew as well as get in the washer 's components i know every 2 months i washe in my duet washer my chocolate lab 's pet bed
one thing i need to had is if you have a pet and wash a pet bed in a front loader be sure to check the gasket as pet hair might acumulate there and cause mould or mildew as well as get in the washer 's components i know every 2 months i washe in my duet washer my chocolate lab 's pet bed
haxisfan
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3beltwesty I couldn't stop laughing after clicking on those links! In the first article there's probably some sense in what they're saying but it all gets incredibly absurd when it shows pictures of visible mould growing on very visible and wipeable parts of the porthole O-ring!
Probably I'd be inclined to support this case if the affected components were somehow hidden or impossible to be reached by the user... blimey... the rubber gasket can accidentally get wiped even by your own clean clothes while unloading the washer... how long does it take to give it a swift wipe?
The second article confirms the general misguidance of this type of speculation... and.. of course... whether it's Miele, LG, Electrolux or whatever-have-you, it will suffer the exact same symptoms as one another having been used by people with high levels of inncompetence: these are the people who should stick by washing in the river!
Probably I'd be inclined to support this case if the affected components were somehow hidden or impossible to be reached by the user... blimey... the rubber gasket can accidentally get wiped even by your own clean clothes while unloading the washer... how long does it take to give it a swift wipe?
The second article confirms the general misguidance of this type of speculation... and.. of course... whether it's Miele, LG, Electrolux or whatever-have-you, it will suffer the exact same symptoms as one another having been used by people with high levels of inncompetence: these are the people who should stick by washing in the river!
When I bought this house the '78 GE Filter-Flo top loader stank.
It smelled like old chewing tobacco.
Eventually I pulled the top panel off, and lo and behold was a thick furry brown layer of mold.
I moved the washer and replaced it with a front loader - a Neptune 7500. The Neptune has NEVER had an off odor, period. And that's after ten years of regular use.
So please spare us the "front loaders are junk" type of pissing contest.
It smelled like old chewing tobacco.
Eventually I pulled the top panel off, and lo and behold was a thick furry brown layer of mold.
I moved the washer and replaced it with a front loader - a Neptune 7500. The Neptune has NEVER had an off odor, period. And that's after ten years of regular use.
So please spare us the "front loaders are junk" type of pissing contest.
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Why defend poor designs?
RE "So please spare us the "front loaders are junk" type of p-ssing contest."
It is the earlier mid 1990's ? first Maytag Neptune Frontloader's that won the "contest" of folks saying their laundry room "is like an open sewer" . I heard my employee who was a neighbor too complain about this issue for many many years.
Ie one hears the "I have to hold my nose so as not to puke when walking through the laundry room" comment many hundreds of times over several years, until the old machine was replaced with a TL machine the old one scrapped and crushed. ie an American failure of a design.
One hears how they bought the Maytag based on Maytag's once great reputation of the zillion TV adverts of the "lonely Maytag repairman, where nothing every was wrong", and feel ripped off by a horrible product.
You hear about how the boot was replaced several times, wax motor issues, of how many attempts were made to fix the beast. You hear how your employee/neighbor got paid off to buy a top loader, to get rid of the foul machine. You hear about the class action lawsuits too. The "pay off" was only good for a top loader, they just punted and took back the old FL and it got crushed.
As a user of the old 1947 and later 1976 westy front loaders, it was rather interesting to hear how a new design smelled like an open sewer. It too is interesting too that poor less robust Newer designs are tolerated as being normal, and how now one has to clean ones FL washer.
RE "So please spare us the "front loaders are junk" type of p-ssing contest."
It is the earlier mid 1990's ? first Maytag Neptune Frontloader's that won the "contest" of folks saying their laundry room "is like an open sewer" . I heard my employee who was a neighbor too complain about this issue for many many years.
Ie one hears the "I have to hold my nose so as not to puke when walking through the laundry room" comment many hundreds of times over several years, until the old machine was replaced with a TL machine the old one scrapped and crushed. ie an American failure of a design.
One hears how they bought the Maytag based on Maytag's once great reputation of the zillion TV adverts of the "lonely Maytag repairman, where nothing every was wrong", and feel ripped off by a horrible product.
You hear about how the boot was replaced several times, wax motor issues, of how many attempts were made to fix the beast. You hear how your employee/neighbor got paid off to buy a top loader, to get rid of the foul machine. You hear about the class action lawsuits too. The "pay off" was only good for a top loader, they just punted and took back the old FL and it got crushed.
As a user of the old 1947 and later 1976 westy front loaders, it was rather interesting to hear how a new design smelled like an open sewer. It too is interesting too that poor less robust Newer designs are tolerated as being normal, and how now one has to clean ones FL washer.
pierreandreply4
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about maytag neptune washers
before they decided to change the desing for the desing shown in the second pic that i will post in my second post there was lots of recalls about this desing
before they decided to change the desing for the desing shown in the second pic that i will post in my second post there was lots of recalls about this desing
pierreandreply4
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Second picture
and when they change to this desing witch i bough for my mother summer place there was only a minor recall but no complaints since they change to this desing around 2006 pic also includes matching dryer
and when they change to this desing witch i bough for my mother summer place there was only a minor recall but no complaints since they change to this desing around 2006 pic also includes matching dryer
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I had the first design Neptune and if I know now what I didn't know then I'd have kept it since now I have a better knowledge of product usage. One thing I did find with my Neptune was when it went into the first spin from the wash cycle it was very short lived, so I'm thinking it may have been the impetus for all the poor rinsing I had experienced compared to the my duet that spins for at least two minutes or possibly more before going into the first rinse.
Live and learn
I had the first design Neptune and if I know now what I didn't know then I'd have kept it since now I have a better knowledge of product usage. One thing I did find with my Neptune was when it went into the first spin from the wash cycle it was very short lived, so I'm thinking it may have been the impetus for all the poor rinsing I had experienced compared to the my duet that spins for at least two minutes or possibly more before going into the first rinse.
Live and learn
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Wow; here in the usa the modern mid 1990's and later FL washers trend is a rinse is really a water shower. One really see's no clothes in water. Maybe this is due to our water police.
